To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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